A Total of $22 Million Awarded for Breakthroughs in Treatment for the Leading Genetic Cause of Infant Death, Super-Resolution Imaging, Discovery of a New Kind of Electronic Material, and Other Major Achievements.
2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to C. Frank Bennett and Adrian R. Krainer, Angelika Amon, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Zhijian “James” Chen.
2019 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Charles Kane and Eugene Mele.
2019 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded to Vincent Lafforgue.
Six “New Horizons” Prizes Worth $600,000 Awarded for Early-Career Achievement in Physics and Math.
All Laureates – including Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Recipient of 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics – to be Honored at Live Televised Ceremony on Sunday, November 4.

Breakthrough Prize Recognizes Bell Burnell’s 1967 Detection of Radio Signals from Rapidly Spinning, Super-Dense Neutron Stars and a Lifetime of Inspiring Scientific Leadership.
50 Years After Her Significant Role in the Discovery, Bell Burnell, of University of Oxford and University of Dundee, Wins $3 Million Physics Prize.
Previous Recipients of the Special Prize Include Stephen Hawking, Seven CERN Scientists Whose Leadership Led to the Discovery of the Higgs Boson, and to the Entire LIGO Collaboration that Detected Gravitational Waves.

All at the Breakthrough Foundation were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Stephen Hawking, winner of the 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, as well as cherished partner of the Breakthrough Initiatives.

World’s Largest Science Prizes to be Awarded in Fall 2018 At Globally Televised Ceremony in Silicon Valley.
Breakthrough Prize to Partner on Outreach with European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA) and ResearchGate.

Morgan Freeman, Academy Award®-Winning Actor and Revelations Entertainment President, will Host; Wiz Khalifa to Perform; Ron Howard, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, and Kerry Washington to Serve as Presenters.
Ceremony to Air Live at 10/9c on National Geographic.
For the First Time, Show to Be Broadcast Live via Facebook and YouTube on Breakthrough Prize and National Geographic Platforms.

Ceremony to Air Live at 10/9c on National Geographic Channel. Morgan Freeman to Host and Alicia Keys to Perform; Jeremy Irons to Serve as Presenter in Mathematics Category. FOX to Air One-Hour Version of Ceremony on Sunday, December 18, 7-8 PM ET/PT; National Geographic Channels International to Also Air One-Hour Version.

Presenters Russell Crowe, Hilary Swank, Lily Collins and Thomas Middleditch and Martin Starr of HBO’s Silicon Valley to Join Host Seth MacFarlane to Honor the World’s Leading Scientists and Mathematician. The Breakthrough Prize Ceremony will be broadcast live on the National Geographic Channel at 10/9c.

Hosted by Seth MacFarlane; Ceremony to Air Live Sunday, Nov. 8, at 10/9c on National Geographic Channel in the US. FOX to Air One-Hour Version of Ceremony Sunday, Nov. 29, 7-8 PM ET/PT; National Geographic Channels International to Also Air One-Hour Version.

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation invites American audiences to help celebrate our greatest scientists by taking part in an exceptional hour of television Saturday, November 15, on the Discovery and Science channels at 6:00 p.m. EST/PST.

$36 Million in prizes to world’s top scientists handed out by founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at a Silicon Valley gala hosted by Seth MacFarlane and attended by celebrity guests.

“The five of us felt we would have more impact if we acted in unison,” said Richard Taylor, who joined Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie and Terence Tao as the first winners of the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.

Art Levinson Steps Down as Chair of Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, Succeeded by Cori Bargmann. Online Nominations For 2015 Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics and Life Sciences are Open Through June 30, 2014.

Like most new Breakthrough Prize laureates, Cornelia Bargmann, Lewis Cantley and Charles Sawyers have each been asked what they intend to do with the $3 million prize. As it turns out, they have answered collectively.

The scholarship will cover two years of PhD thesis funding for about eight talented and motivated young researchers, with an emphasis on choosing those from environments with limited financial resources. The students’ first year will be at CERN, the second back at their home universities.

Tejinder Singh Virdee and Joseph Incandela were raised in very different circumstances on separate continents, but they both understand the transformative effect that a science education can have on a young person.